Cardano 创始人 Charles Hoskinson 在 Consensus 2025 公布隐私侧链 Midnight 的 “Glacier Drop” 空投计划，将向 8 条主流公链的 3700 万用户分发 NIGHT 与 DUST 代币，完全排除风投机构。Hoskinson 还提出 “协作经济学” 模型，支持跨链用 ETH、SOL 等支付并共享验证收益。Midnight 测试网已上线，主...

<div>Cardano 创始人 Charles Hoskinson 在 Consensus 2025 公布隐私侧链 Midnight 的 “Glacier Drop” 空投计划，将向 8 条主流公链的 3700 万用户分发 NIGHT 与 DUST 代币，完全排除风投机构。Hoskinson 还提出 “协作经济学” 模型，支持跨链用 ETH、SOL 等支付并共享验证收益。Midnight 测试网已上线，主网预计 2025 年底启动。<br><br></div>

Cardano 创始人披露隐私侧链 Midnight 的 “Glacier Drop” 空投计划细节

Charles Hoskinson, the founder of Cardano, announced the "Glacier Drop" airdrop plan for the privacy sidechain Midnight at Consensus 2025, which will distribute NIGHT and DUST tokens to 37 million users across 8 mainstream public chains, completely excluding venture capital institutions. Hoskinson also proposed a "collaborative economics" model, supporting cross-chain payments using ETH, SOL, and other cryptocurrencies while sharing validation rewards. The Midnight testnet is already online, main...

<div>Cardano founder Charles Hoskinson announced the "Glacier Drop" airdrop plan for the privacy sidechain Midnight at Consensus 2025, which will distribute NIGHT and DUST tokens to 37 million users across 8 mainstream public chains, completely excluding venture capital institutions. Hoskinson also proposed a "collaborative economics" model, supporting cross-chain payments with ETH, SOL, and other tokens while sharing verification rewards. The Midnight testnet is already online, with the mainnet expected to launch by the end of 2025.</div>

Cardano founder reveals details of Midnight’s “Glacier Drop” airdrop plan

In the crypto world, what truly determines victory is never code, but the interplay between liquidity, power, and regulation. The rise and fall of BUSD is not merely a tragic tale of a stablecoin, but a financial war waged by exchanges attempting to "unify the world."

When BUSD was thrust onto the historical stage, it carried not only a compliance narrative, but also Binance's ambition to reshape the stablecoin order through coercive measures—by manipulating exchange rates and merging trading pairs, directly swallowing competitors' liquidity into its own ledger.

The "automatic conversion" of 2022 was a textbook example of a blitzkrieg; and 2023...

The Rise and Fall of Binance's Dominance: From BUSD's "Unification" to $U's "Conquering the World"—The Stablecoin Wars

Source: Galaxy Research; Translation: Jinse Finance xz
Bitcoin's closing price in 2025 is expected to be roughly the same as the level at the beginning of the year.
The cryptocurrency market experienced a genuine bullish wave in the first ten months of this year. Regulatory reforms continued to advance, ETFs continued to attract funds, and on-chain activity became increasingly active. Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $126,080 on October 6th.
However, the market failed to deliver the expected breakthrough after the initial frenzy; instead, it experienced rotation, repricing, and rebalancing. This was driven by factors such as unmet macroeconomic expectations, a shift in investment narratives, leveraged margin calls, and massive...

Galaxy: 26 Predictions for the Crypto Market in 2026

Messari released "The Crypto Theses 2026," a report that predicts future trends in public blockchains, DeFi, AI, DePIN, and TradFi. From Messari's perspective, 2026 will be a pivotal year for cryptocurrencies, marking a shift from "speculative" to "system-level integration."

Author: Messari
Compiled/Translated by: ODIG Invest
Messari Releases "The Crypto Theses 2026"...